ReadMe 21-Jan-92

This is version 1.0.2 of KTEXT, a morphological parser that
processes text. This is a special beta version of KTEXT for
386-based PCs. It will use all available extended/expanded memory
and virtual memory. It is especially intended for use with
Englex, a large English lexicon that exceeds the limits of the
640K version of KTEXT. Englex should be available from the same
source as KTEXT.

KTEXT is intended to be used with PC-KIMMO (though it is a
stand-alone program). PC-KIMMO is a program for doing
computational phonology and morphology. It is typically used to
build morphological parsers for natural language processing
systems. PC-KIMMO is described in the book "PC-KIMMO: a two-level
processor for morphological analysis" by Evan L. Antworth,
published by the Summer Institute of Linguistics (1990). The PC-
KIMMO software is available for MS-DOS (IBM PCs and compatibles),
Macintosh, and UNIX. The book (including software) is available
for $23.00 (plus postage) from:

    International Academic Bookstore
    7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road
    Dallas TX, 75236
    U.S.A.

    phone  214/709-2404
    fax    214/709-2433

PC-KIMMO (the IBM version) is available from SIMTEL20 
(wsmr-simtel20.army.mil [192.88.110.20]) as 
PD1:<MSDOS.LINGUISTICS>PCKIMMO.ZIP. The Macintosh version of PC-KIMMO
is available from sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6] as
/info-mac/app/pc-kimmo.hqx.

The KTEXT program will be of limited use to you without the PC-KIMMO
program and book.

This software release should contain the following items:

  KTEXT program
  KTEXT User's Guide
  ReadMe file

The user's guide is a plain text file, though it does contain a few eight-bit
accented characters.

I would like to hear your reactions to KTEXT, both pro and con.

Evan Antworth
Academic Computing Department
Summer Institute of Linguistics
7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road
Dallas, TX 75236
U.S.A.

phone   214/709-2418
e-mail  evan@sil.org
